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Who's afraid of michelle rhee?

Yesterday Instapundit linked to the Washington Examiner report on DC school chief Michelle Rhee's interference on behalf of her boyfriend:

Rhee, who later became engaged to marry Johnson, had been on St. Hope's board of directors before taking over as chief of the District of Columbia system. Her apparent goal, as she visited Walpin, was to vouch for Johnson.

"The basic point of her meeting with me was to tell me what a great guy he was," Walpin recalls, "and what wonderful work he has done, and that maybe he had made mistakes administratively, but that she thought I should give as much consideration as possible to his good work in deciding what to do."

Rhee's visit wasn't a big success. Not long after the meeting, the Corporation for National and Community Service, which is the agency that oversees AmeriCorps, banned Johnson from receiving any more federal money. Walpin referred the financial allegations, as well as the accusations of sexual misconduct, to the U.S. attorney's office in Sacramento. St. Hope was eventually ordered to pay back $425,000 of the AmeriCorps cash. Prosecutors took no action on the sexual allegations. Johnson, meanwhile, won the mayor's race.

In June of this year, President Obama abruptly fired Walpin. The White House was apparently unhappy with the zeal with which he conducted the St. Hope probe.

I don't think this story is going away, despite concerted media efforts to ignore it.

Well today the Washington Post had an editorial about Michelle Rhee's legal troubles.

THE DECISION by a D.C. Superior Court judge to uphold D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee's dismissal of 388 school employees is more than an important legal victory. It is a refutation of accusations that she manufactured a budget crisis as pretext to fire teachers she didn't want. The unequivocal findings should abash Ms. Rhee's critics and, we hope, help her reach needed accord with the teachers' union.

Well, no it wasn't about Ms. Rhee's possibly inappropriate interference on behalf of her boyfriend. Admittedly this does appear to be an important issue. However, the issue of her possible misbehavior is nowhere to be found in the Washington Post (so far.)

Amazing isn't it? A generation ago the Washington Post made its name for fearlessly reporting a scandal surrounding a sitting president. Now it won't even investigate the head of Washington D.C.'s public schools, who is politically connected to a president it favors.